LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
New Zealand has a new legal technology venture, but this one is not promising to shave another 20 minutes off a lawyer’s drafting time. Tika, the sexual harm reporting and legal support service co-founded by former journalist Alison Mau and lawyer Zoë Lawton, (pictured) has launched publicly in New Zealand, introducing a model that combines
>> new role; new organisation – General Counsel & Company Secretary Doyle’s Guide builds its rankings from peer and client nominations rather than firm submissions, and insists they can’t be bought. Ranked practitioners can, of course, pay to dress up their profiles afterwards. Strip away the chambers newsletters and LinkedIn victory laps, and the 2026
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As the owner of Kathmandu and Rip Curl battles a major $414 million loss, its legal fees have surged more than 1,400 per cent with Chapman Tripp pocketing the massive law fees’ surge as KMD Brands bleed money.
Two directors have connections to its longstanding legal adviser, raising questions about corporate governance and the management of potential conflicts.
Chapman Tripp received NZ$1.192 million in legal fees from the troubled retailer during the financial year ended July 2026, compared with just $79,000 the previous year, according to financial records from KMD and reported in the Australian Financial Review.
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Quinn Emanuel tops BTI’s most feared litigation list for the fifth straight year. The top sixteen firms haven’t budged. The only real movement is further down, where some “Awesome” firms are quietly being reclassified as merely “Intimidating.” A particular kind of silence falls over a general counsel’s office when the other side’s notice of appearance
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A former finance manager who was involved in a large scale multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme targeting the Japanese community has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison, and ordered to pay $691,000 in reparations, after being found guilty on charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office. A minimum period of imprisonment of 40%
Artificial intelligence is reshaping law offices at breakneck speed, but the gap between technical efficiency and professional liability has never been narrower. At the center of this transition is Pearl, the hybrid intelligence powerhouse connecting advanced AI infrastructure with a network of over 20,000 verified licensed professionals across 100+ disciplines. By pairing automated workflows with
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(September 24, 2026) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labour law practice representing management, and its attorneys have achieved recognition by Chambers and Partners in the 2027 Chambers Canada guide. The recognition comes at a time of continued growth for Littler in Canada, underscoring the strength of the firm’s expanding labour and employment practice and its
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24 September 2026 | London: Luminance, the global leader in Contract Intelligence for the enterprise, today announced that Cryptomathic, a Danish IT security company serving major financial institutions, has adopted Luminance’s Contract Intelligence Platform, turning its contract repository into a commercial resource the entire organization can use. With a lean Legal, Risk & Compliance team
Neel Sachdev is the best-paid finance lawyer in London, the most-discussed lateral hire of the decade, and possibly the only Big Law partner who has consulted an astrologer before hiring associates. He’s also been continuing to attract a lot of publicity lately.
Most partners at elite law firms prefer to be invisible outside a small circle of clients and headhunters. Neel Sachdev has taken a different approach. The Paul Weiss London co-head is the subject of a new Financial Times profile, and it may be the most entertaining piece of legal journalism this year.
The FT’s legal correspondent, Suzi Ring, met the 51-year-old lawyer in Portugal, where he has invested in a luxury property development on the site of a former orange grove in the Algarve. He did not arrive quietly, but rather in a red open-top 1977 Mercedes 450 SL, wearing a matching outfit, sunglasses and his trademark beaded bracelets.
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–Mayer Brown announced today that Albert “BJ” Stieglitz has joined the firm as a partner in its Global Investigations & White Collar Defense practice in Washington DC. He joins Mayer Brown from Alston & Bird. “BJ is one of the premier investigations and enforcement defense lawyers in the market, bringing an exceptional combination of senior
